Ted Cruz breaks with Republicans, slams ‘mafioso’ threats to broadcasters
The US senator has labelled Carr's comments 'dangerous as hell' and something 'right out of Goodfellas'.
Republican senator says US TV regulator acted like ‘mafioso’ on Jimmy Kimmel
The Texas senator affected a mobster accent to criticise how ABC was pressed to take action on the late-night host.
Republican senator says US TV regulator acted like ‘mafioso’ on Jimmy Kimmel
The Texas senator affected a mobster accent to criticise how ABC was pressed to take action on the late-night host.
Sudan: RSF drone strike kills dozens in Darfur – dw.com
- Sudan: RSF drone strike kills dozens in Darfur dw.com
- ‘Harrowing Beyond Description’: Dozens Killed While at Prayer in Sudan The New York Times
- Scores killed by RSF drone strike on mosque in besieged Sudanese city The Guardian
- More than 70 civilians killed in attack on mosque in Darfur’s el-Fasher Al Jazeera
- El-Fasher: Drone strike on Sudan mosque kills 78, medic tells BBC BBC
Chinese executive jailed for 25 years in US for trafficking fentanyl chemicals
Qingzhou Wang of Amarvel Biotech accused by prosecutors of turning chemical company into ‘pipeline of poison’
A Chinese company executive has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for trafficking in chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, the US justice department has said.
Qingzhou Wang, 37, principal executive of Amarvel Biotech, a company based in Wuhan, and Yiyi Chen, 33, the firm’s marketing manager, were convicted in New York in February of fentanyl precusor importation and money laundering.
Continue reading...US forces strike third alleged drug vessel killing three, Trump says
Venezuela has condemned a series of strikes by US forces in the Caribbean targeting alleged drug traffickers.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,304
Here are the key events on day 1,304 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Sikh grandmother’s arrest by US immigration sparks community anger
Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old who unsuccessfully applied for asylum, was arrested by immigration authorities last week.
Russian Fighter Jets Enter Airspace of Estonia, a NATO Member – The New York Times
- Russian Fighter Jets Enter Airspace of Estonia, a NATO Member The New York Times
- Nato intercepts Russian fighter jets on ‘reckless’ violation of Estonian airspace The Guardian
- Russia ‘testing’ NATO with warplane incursion, Estonia warns politico.eu
- 'Putin's jets over Estonia' and MP calls two-child benefit cap 'spiteful' BBC
- NATO intercepts three Russian jets over Estonia’s airspace CNN
Trump says US hit another ‘drug vessel’, Venezuela slams ‘undeclared war’
US president says American forces struck the vessel in the Southern Command's 'area of responsibility', killing three.
Trump again asks supreme court to end protections for Venezuelans in US
Justice department urges court to overturn ruling that Kristi Noem lacked authority to end TPS program
The Trump administration asked the US supreme court on Friday to intervene for the second time in a case involving its bid to end deportation protections the former president, Joe Biden, granted to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States.
The justice department filed an emergency application asking the justices to lift a federal judge’s ruling that the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, lacked the authority to end the protections for Venezuelans under the temporary protected status, or TPS, program.
Continue reading...BHP blames ‘coal tax’ for job layoffs. But there’s obvious reasons coalmines aren’t as profitable anymore
Rising wages and costs of having to dig deeper for minerals – not royalty payments – are behind job cuts in a sector that appears to be in decline
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Australia’s big miners are not averse to a political fight.
Consider the biggest miner of them all: BHP.
Jonathan Barrett is business editor of Guardian Australia
Continue reading...Japan may see its first female PM despite limited progress on gender gap – The Japan Times
- Japan may see its first female PM despite limited progress on gender gap The Japan Times
- Japan’s Koizumi Aims for Wage Growth in Policy Proposal Reveal Bloomberg.com
- PM contender Takaichi vows fiscal expansion to make Japan a 'Rising Sun' again Reuters
- LDP candidates through a 'Japanese conservative' lens The Japan Times
- Who is Japan's Shinjiro Koizumi? Nikkei Asia
Canada bans Irish rap group Kneecap from entering the country – AP News
- Canada bans Irish rap group Kneecap from entering the country AP News
- Irish rap group Kneecap have been banned from entering Canada CNN
- Kneecap banned from Canada for ‘glorifying terrorist organisations’ The Guardian
- Irish band Kneecap says Canada ban aims to ‘silence opposition to genocide’ Al Jazeera
- Canada has banned an Irish rap group. Who is Kneecap? CBC
‘I’m Kenyan, don’t shoot’ – the athlete who says he was duped into the Russian army
Evans Kibet, now being held in Ukraine after surrendering, says he did not know he was signing up.
Russia’s answer to Eurovision is less kitsch, more Kremlin
Putin resurrects a Soviet-era global song contest, to distract from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
US vaccine panel no longer recommends Covid-19 jab to adults
The panel has also changed its recommendation on the MMRV vaccine and delayed a vote on the hepatitis B jab.
How a man’s affair with his mother-in-law became a viral film in Indonesia
Norma, a movie based on a viral true story from TikTok, has become a nationwide obsession.
Israel killed 31 journalists in Yemen strike, press freedom group says – The Washington Post
- Israel killed 31 journalists in Yemen strike, press freedom group says The Washington Post
- Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists marks deadliest global attack in 16 years Committee to Protect Journalists
- Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa Kills Journalists Human Rights Watch
- Israel strikes the Yemeni port of Hodeida as Houthi rebels activate air defenses AP News
- Staggering Death Toll Rises to 32 in Single-Deadliest Israeli Strike on Journalists Drop Site News
Estonia seeks Nato consultation after Russian jets violate airspace
Russia denies jets entered Estonian airspace in the same month as its drones violated the airspace of two other Nato members.